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Tom Jenkins  |
EXEMPT STATUS: Top 31 on 2002 Champions Tour Money List FULL NAME: Tom Jenkins HEIGHT: 5-11 WEIGHT: 190 BIRTHDATE: December 14, 1947 BIRTHPLACE: Houston, TX RESIDENCE: Austin, TX FAMILY: Wife, Martha; Melani Anne (9/13/79), Tom, Jr. (7/4/00) EDUCATION: University of Houston (1971, Business Administration) SPECIAL INTERESTS: Computers TURNED PROFESSIONAL: 1971 JOINED TOUR: 1998 |
| PGA TOUR Victories |
| (1) 1975 IVB-Philadelphia Golf Classic. |
| Champions Tour Victories |
| (4) 1999 Bell Atlantic Classic. 2000 AT&T Canada Senior Open Championship. 2002 AT&T Canada Senior Open Championship. 2003 Bruno's Memorial Classic. |
| Current Year Charles Schwab Cup Points and Positions |
| 687 (9) |
| Current Year Champions Tour Money and Positions |
| $762,703 (4) |
| Current Year Best Champions Tour Finishes |
| 1--Bruno's Memorial Classic, T2--MasterCard Classic, T4--Music City Championship at Gaylord Opryland, T6--Bayer Advantage Celebrity Pro-Am, T7--MasterCard Championship, ACE Group Classic, T10--Verizon Classic, Columbus Southern Open, |
| Current Year Champions Tour Best Round |
| 65 at Round 2, MasterCard Classic, at Round 2, Columbus Southern Open |
| Current Year Champions Tour Highlights |
| Registered his fourth career win on the Champions Tour when he broke away from Bruce Fleisher and Hale Irwin to win the Bruno's Memorial Classic. Final-round 67 at Greystone was good enough for a three-stroke victory. His fourth Champions Tour title, combined with his one PGA TOUR victory, makes him eligible for the 2004 Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf...Fell one stroke short at the MasterCard Classic in Mexico City, finishing T2 along with three other players behind first-time winner David Eger...Also T4 at the Music City Championship and T6 at the Bayer Advantage Celebrity Pro-Am. |
| Best PGA TOUR Finishes |
| 1--1975 IVB-Philadelphia Golf Classic. |
| Best Champions Tour Finishes |
| 1--1999 Bell Atlantic Classic. 2000 AT&T Canada Senior Open Championship. 2002 AT&T Canada Senior Open Championship. 2003 Bruno's Memorial Classic. |
| Best Nationwide Tour Finishes |
| T9--1993 NIKE New England Classic. |
| Best 2002 Champions Tour Finishes |
| 1--AT&T Canada Senior Open Championship, T5--Emerald Coast Classic, The Instinet Classic, T6--Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf, T7--NFL Golf Classic, T8--Bruno's Memorial Classic, Lightpath Long Island Classic, T9--ACE Group Classic, T10--Toshiba Senior Classic |
| 2002 Season Champions Tour |
| Tournaments Entered--34; in money--34; Top 10 finishes--10 |
| 2002 Season Highlights |
| Surpassed the $1-million mark for the fourth straight year and again finished 15th on the money list for the second straight year. Again, one of the busiest players on the Champions Tour with starts in 34 of 35 official events. The only event he did not play was the Farmers Charity Classic...Won north of the border for the second time in the last three years when he triumphed at the AT&T Canada Senior Open Championship. Opened with a 63 at Essex and closed with 64 to defeat Walter Morgan, Morris Hatalsky and Bruce Lietzke by three strokes. In winning, became first player since Don January (1983-84) to win multiple Champions Tour titles in Canada...Made strong bid for second win of the year, closing with a Champions Tour career-best 10-under-par 62 at the Kroger Senior Classic which also tied the course record set earlier in the day by Bruce Lietzke. However, fell in a two-hole playoff with Bob Gilder, the second year in succession he lost in a playoff at the event...T10 at the Toshiba Senior Classic after playing all 54 holes without a bogey, the first senior to do so since Joe Inman at the 2000 EMC Kaanapali Classic. Bogey-free streak reached 67 holes before it ended the next week on the in sixth hole in the opening round of the Siebel Classic. |
| Career Highlights |
| 2001: The only one of 16 millionaires to not win an event...Knocked on the victory door three times only to come up short with three runner-up finishes, all in the second half of the season...Was in the hunt throughout The Instinet Classic, but finished two strokes back of Gil Morgan...One of only three players in the Novell Utah Showdown field to card three consecutive sub-70 rounds, but came up one stroke shy of Steve Veriato in Park City...Had victory snatched from his grasp at the Kroger Senior Classic. Closed with a then-career-best 7-under 63 at Kings Island on Sunday and was two strokes up on Jim Thorpe with one hole to play. Dramatic eagle by Thorpe forced a playoff and then a birdie by Thorpe on the first extra hole proved to be the winner. 2000: Earned his second career title as a senior at the AT&T Canada Senior Open Championship. Made birdie on the final hole to nip Kermit Zarley by a stroke at St. Charles CC in Winnipeg. Victory came just over a month after his wife, Martha, delivered Tom Jr...Contended for titles earlier in the year at the Nationwide Championship, BellSouth Senior Classic at Opryland and The Instinet Classic where he was the defending champion. Carded a final-round 69 at the Nationwide, but came up one stroke short of Hale Irwin. Lost out again to Irwin by two strokes in Nashville despite posting a 54-hole score of 16-under 200, his best effort all year in relation to par. Was tied with Bob Murphy for the 36-hole lead at The Instinet Classic, before finishing fourth. 1999: Voted by his peers as the Champions Tour's Comeback Player of the Year...Won the Bell Atlantic Classic in a playoff. Defeated Jim Thorpe with a birdie on the first extra hole for his first Champions Tour victory and first TOUR title since the 1975 IVB-Philadelphia Classic. Win at Hartefeld National made him the fifth of a record 11 first-time winners on the season. 1998: Contended for the AT&T Canada Senior Open Championship crown in Calgary, but finished T2 behind Brian Barnes. 1997: Earned a conditional exemption for 1998 by placing 10th at the Champions Tour National Qualifying Tournament in November. |
| Personal |
| Biggest thrills in golf have been playing on the University of Houston's 1970 NCAA championship team and winning his PGA TOUR title in Philadelphia...A college teammate of John Mahaffey...His family has an involvement in the wine industry in Napa, CA. |
| PGA TOUR Playoff Record |
| 0-1 |
| Champions Tour Playoff Record |
| 1-2 |